[New England Baofeng UV-5R programmers]

I would just like to point out that one need not be "a programmer" to setup a UV-5R radio. Investing a few minutes reading some online articles or watching Youtube videos is all you need to learn how to 'program' your radio.  You can even do it all by hand, right on the keypad, no computer necessary.

Virtually everyone here learned to do it ourselves, and we all have faith that you can too - We believe in you!

[Is 50 watts a waste?]

50W is good, especially when you have a long-run of that leaky coax, to get more juice squirting from the antenna.

50W is also good to step on the other guy that is irritating everyone but only has 20W.. all else being equal.

[GMRS Type Accepted Radio List]

33 minutes ago, WRXY699 said:

Just thought I would propose this idea if the good people that run this website might have found it interesting.

You thought wrong.

[GMRS Type Accepted Radio List]

38 minutes ago, Lscott said:

Of course somebody will have to "volunteer" their time to maintain the list and weed out bad listings. This is were ideas like this usually fail nobody wants to put in the effort.

I volunteer @WRXY699

[GMRS Type Accepted Radio List]

It does not really require much research - just follow this formula: 
IF radio is manufactured after 2017 AND IF radio says "GMRS" on the box THEN = FCC Type Accepted*

 

*99.9998% of the time

[New to GMRS]

1: YES - you also have to add the correct "TX" or Transmit tone .. The RX/Receive tone is optional

2: GMRS is not primarily intended to "get into conversations with others" - but if you insist, just call out and ask if anybody wants to talk to you. There is no protocol other than talking normally and using your GMRS callsign at least once every 15 minutes.

[Needing more FARS from a handheld]

1 hour ago, WSBN706 said:

especially that rubicon guy

Be careful!!1 I have read that the rubicon guy is just a shill for cheap chinese radios and will say anything the manufactures tell him to say!!!1
I know it must be true because the people that say that have been licensed ham radio operators for 20+ years, it says so right in their forum signature!!1

[Hypothetical Scenario: What would happen?]

Yes, there will be interference.

[Tidradio TD-H8 Won't Hold Channels in Memory.]

Should have got the BoofWHang!

[HamRegistry questions]

9 minutes ago, Guest Capt Mark said:

Besides HR or a PO box are there any other ideas for getting my license and not be worried about my home address out there for all the world to see?

The only other option is to give a fake address, but that violates the rules so either Ham Registry or a PO box are the only FCC-acceptable ways to keep your address private.

[Antenna question on roof of 4Runner]

Are you talking with your friends on the trail, or trying to bounce signals off the moon and talk to strangers across the planet?  

If you are using your radio for talking to your friends on the trail then SWR of 1.4 is fine and SWR of 2.4 is good enough. Stop overthinking it and just enjoy the radio.

[Why Cant They Cant Hear Me?]

Maybe they can hear you, but just don't want to talk to you.

[Noob question RE: Repeater tones]

No.

The Output Tone is always optional and is only used to limit what you hear to only that repeater.

[Is the btech gmrs v2 a decent upgrade?]

11 minutes ago, WRYZ926 said:

They are also easily overloaded by other radios in close proximity (1/2 mile or less)

Although overload is a real thing, after testing LITERALLY every GMRS handheld manufactured in the last 5 years, I have never, EVER, NOT ONCE seen any overload/desense issues unless the radios were closer than about 75 feet, an 90% of the time they had to be closer than 25 feet or so.

To claim that overload is an issue at up to a 1/2-mile, on its surface, seems like a preposterous over-exagguration, based on my very extensive testing. But that's just my experience.. 

[New to GMRS/Radios in general questions]

3 hours ago, WRXB215 said:

...starting out with ham radios is going to make it a little LOT more difficult...

Fixed that for you.

For someone that is already at least vaguely familiar with what repeaters are and how they work, its a "little" more difficult.. For someone that knows absolutely zero about nuthin, it is going to be a LOT more difficult.

[Can you reduce syllables in your call sign ("Ten" instead of "One-Zee-Roh")?]

1 minute ago, back4more70 said:

my HAM ID

It's H.A.M.!  You passed a test, you should know better.

[New to GMRS/Radios in general questions]

All of your radios are H.A.M. radios, so they probably won't be able to transmit on the GMRS repeater.. But, if they are unlocked, you can ignore the 'output' tone until you know what you're doing, and just use the input tone by entering that in your repeater-channel setup which will be specific to each radio.

You have a lot to learn - there are no simple, quick answers.. Unless you had real GMRS radios, then it is actually pretty simple and quick to use a repeater.. but you have H.A.M. radios.. sooo... 

[Situation: Mobile Repeater Operation During Disaster]

 No way you're going to get MY toilet paper... Nice try..

[What repeater and antenna would you choose?]

I chose a Vertex VXR7000 and a Tram1486.  I chose the 1486 due partially to its very low wind-profile.

[Help with programming...]

8 minutes ago, WRYS709 said:

 

Edit: Nevermind

[Retevis RT97s issue]

1 hour ago, Sshannon said:

This is probably the issue. UHF just doesn’t pass through moisture bearing vegetation. 

Moisture bearing vegetation is even worse than houses full of .. .fat people!

[Help with programming...]

You can't (yet) use CHIRP to program your UV-5G+.. Your best hope is IF you can copy and paste the info from CHIRP into the UV-5G Plus software.  Or export from CHIRP and import into the UV-5G+ software, and I'm not sure the 5G+ software can do either.

[Repeating Noise on GMRS 3 and 17 and 18]

2 hours ago, tweiss3 said:

Also could be a 2nd image of 925.225MHz

I never thought of this.  I will check the other harmonics (above and below) for 462.6000 and see what I hear.

[Repeating Noise on GMRS 3 and 17 and 18]

5 minutes ago, Lscott said:

It could also be just the radio.

Then why does it occur on all my radios (forgot to mention in my list above it also happens KG-1000G+) and why did it just start happening a few months ago?

[GMRS repeater with no tones.]

If you are using a real GMRS radio you dont need to hassle with the offset, just switch to the correct repeater channel - IF the repeater truly does not require a tone, then thats all you need. My guess is that it does need a tone, but it's just not there for whatever reason.